Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With so many of Lotus Engineering 's successes having to remain secret , the Corvette Indy stands as the company 's most compelling advertisement . |
| 2 | Herr Nordern staggered as the night air hit him and Bodo held his elbow as they lurched back to the flats . |
| 3 | This ‘ success ’ prompted a further onslaught by senior ministers against what Baker described as the ‘ hysterical gossiping ’ among MPs about the leadership . |
| 4 | An extrapolation of this responsibility saw Hermes designated as the conductor of the souls of the dead to HADES , as well as being a god of sleep and dreams . |
| 5 | With the Consulate France became respectable — the Concordat allowed Napoleon to appear as the protector of Catholicism . |
| 6 | Some changes , however , were made in the draft to satisfy those who had challenged it in this way : union republics were given eleven rather than seven seats each in the Supreme Soviet 's Council of Nationalities and ex officio places on the Committee of Constitutional Supervision , and changes of wording were made in order to remove what Gorbachev described as the ‘ misunderstanding ’ that the rights of republics had been infringed . |
| 7 | Gorbachev described as the most topical issue facing the congress the role of the communist parties in the union republics . |
| 8 | Oswald , whom Bede regarded as the fifth overlord of the peoples south of the Humber and described as ruling within the same bounds as Eadwine ( HE 11 , 5 ) , clearly became on this testimony as powerful a ruler as Eadwine had been , but on his accession he faced an immediate challenge in midland and eastern England from Penda . |
| 9 | The tournament starts on Monday and world No 2 Graf starts as the logical favourite to win following Seles 's withdrawal . |
| 10 | As rivals in the individual stakes , though , McColgan starts as the leading British challenger and is strongly fancied to stop American Lynn Jennings claiming a third successive title . |
| 11 | The novelist George Meredith posed as the model for Henry Wallis 's ‘ Death of Chatterton ’ |
| 12 | Prior to the Falklands War , he tried to broker a peace conference with Mexico acting as the go-between . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , one of them , ’ Bernice muttered as the Doctor bounded into the centre of the room . |
| 14 | The British attitude had long been clear : the 1951 Conservative government had continued to follow the line laid down by the previous Labour foreign minister , Ernest Bevin , who said in the House of Commons in November 1950 that Britain preferred an expansion of the Treaty of Brussels to serve as the basis of military cooperation within NATO , but would not object to the EDC were it to be established . |
| 15 | The honorary HDUR president , Bishop Laszlo Tokes , the pastor whose forced removal from his parish in Timisoara acted as the catalyst for the revolution [ see p. 37104 ] , called for a halt to the wave of emigration . |
| 16 | Augustus John 's ‘ leonine personality ’ was well known , as was Wilson Steer 's total life devotion to his ‘ absorbing passion for painting , ’ 12 or Sickert 's arrogant self-belief — all artists Walker admired as the best and aligned herself with . |
| 17 | In general , in the west the basilican plan prevailed , with Rome as inspiration , but further east , in Syria , Armenia , Greece and Serbia Byzantium acted as the model and the dome was the dominant feature . |
| 18 | Then the Glebes had come to the island , the petty tribal squabbles had been quelled , and Ixmarity established as the major religion . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most important evidence adduced for Maxse 's radical right outlook is the fact that he tended to lapse into what Richard Hofstadter saw as the chief characteristic of such politics , namely a ‘ paranoid style ’ . |
| 20 | Shiv Shakar resigned as the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha on Jan. 2 , foregoing the claim of the Congress ( I ) to be the main opposition party in the upper house . |
| 21 | All Forest had to show for their attacking fury was Nigel Clough 's first goal in two months , but Micky Adams emerged as the Saints matchwinner , creating the first for Matthew Le Tissier and heading the winner from Jeff Kenna 's cross . |
| 22 | " Reason " , Hilton defines as the faculty by which things are understood — the process by which they are brought to conscious recognition and so can be , metaphorically , " seen " , like the wisdom of God the Father , — Christ . |
| 23 | Despite a boycott in parts of Abkhazia , over 75 per cent of the electorate turned out to vote in the elections , in which Shevardnadze stood as the only candidate . |
| 24 | Whereas James I and James IV had built great halls , James V , like the first two Tudor kings , created a series of rooms , in Scotland described as the guard hall , the presence chamber and the bedchamber . |
| 25 | Mr Patten is anxious to see MFN retained as the majority of investment in China is from Hong Kong , and how he uses his influence in the talks will be critical . |
| 26 | The Exchequer is broadly equivalent to central government and the category of " exchequer transactions " comprises the main flows which are the result of the Bank of England acting as the banker to central government . |
| 27 | Such an arrogant and arrogating narrative means that the story of ‘ world history ’ not only involves what Fredric Jameson describes as the wresting of freedom from the realm of necessity but always also the creation , subjection and final appropriation of Europe 's ‘ others ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ There is a crisis in Marxism ’ , Sartre announced at the beginning of the Critique ; this crisis , not the first and not to be the last , Sartre characterized as the result of a paradox in which historical materialism had become ‘ at one and the same time , the only truth of History and a total indetermination of the Truth ’ ( I , 19 ) . |
| 29 | Nell flinched as the whistly words came faster and higher , as Piphros grew more agitated . |
| 30 | The Bank of England evolved as the regulator of banks largely through its operations in the financial markets . |